Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-23
NORTH CAROLINA,
NEWS soTgs GATHERED HERE AND
THERE AT RALgIaH.
Tho work Of the Courts - Railroad Con
struetion-Fouud Desd-hinis'sr
Jarvis, &c.
especial telegram to the Dispatch.l

ficriUs OF n1ut, iihhhiiis NV
Caswell counties to-day brought eleven
convicts 70 the penitentiary. Sheriff
Allison. OF Jredell, also returned an
ESCAPED convict named John Lazcnby.
Governor Scales went 10 Vance county
to day to look after his farms.
The Supreme Court will take a recess
Thanksgiving Day.
The Newberne Journal has made the
first declaration for Democratic candi-
date for Governor. II nominatcs Walter
Clark for that position.
At Wilmington yesterday the dead
body OF Berry Stuart, m aged negro
man. was found in the woods.
The North Carolina Conference Of the
Methodist Protestant Church meets day
after tomorrow at Flat Rock, Hender-
son county. and will remain III session
until the Both instant.
The cotton-gin OF A. ". Heath, in
Mecklcnburg county, has been burned.
The loss is $1,000, with no insurance.
In Union county yesterday two men
employed as laborers on the Georgia and
North Carolina railway quarrelled. One
drew revolver and shot the other dead,
and then escaped.
In the Supreme Court to-day large
number of suits against the Danvlllc,
Mocksville and Southwestern railroad
were continued until next term.
At Shelby, Cleveland county, yester-
day J. A. Summers, a furniture dealer,
made IN assignment. Liabilities are not
over 500, and are covered by assets.
An Englishman, name unknown, who
had been connected with Barrett's cir
Gus but had been recently discharged,
was found dead last night in hotel at
Charlotte. His death was the result of
drink.
Ali the talk and fuss about the mort
gage or sale of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad has ceased This shows
howlittle backingeitber PROFESSIONALLY
had. There are not lacking people who
expect to see the North Carolina and At
lantic and North Carolina roads under
one management at the conclusion of the
lease of the former line to the Richmond
and Danville system. OF course it is a
good way off, but it is something to look
forward to.
The newsabout the health of Minister
Jarvis which comes from Rio Is not as
surfing, and causes some uneasiness
among his friends. IL is the expectation
of Minister Jarvis to return 10 this State
from Brazil just after the State Demo
cratic Convention next summer, so bis
friends say. OF course it is an open
secret that he will be n candidate for the
Senate, and a powerful adversary Sena-
tor Ransom will no doubt find him. Some
people say that the struggle between
these two may be so great that neither
will get the prize, but that it may fall
TO another. Hon. George Davis,
Of Wilmington, who is spoken Of in
connection with the gubenatorial nomi-
nation, is also regarded, in such a case,
as q powerful rival in the race for the
Senate. Mr.. Davis has rs yet said no
thing in regard to the matter For
years he bas been q very quiet uaau, aud
he continues IN the same line but his
friends may ut any time induce lim to
leave his scni-rc,ircmcnt and begin
again that public life in which he has
won such position aud favor trc now.
The line weather is gods pd. The
sowing Of small gram j. beng pushed aa
rapidly perhaps rs was ever before
known. NE soil is in most eases in
good condition. Every day Of bright
weather in the next twenty day is worth
a great deal.
Some of the fields in this section are
vet quite white with cotton. The pro-
portion unpickcd in the whole state on
the 18th instant was - per cent, or very
nearly one 'ourth Most Of that now in
the fields is stained and much OF It is
badly damaged. 1t Is one of the plainest
signs Of the loss inflicted by the long
rains ut the most unreasonable time.
There has been quite a sharp increase
in the number of conyicts as a result o,
the work OF the fall courts. Over 125
have come IN, of which about sixty five
have been sent to the railways which use
convicts.
The contractors for the grading Of the
railway from Durham to Henderson now
have 400 men at work, and tell me that
in thirty days they expect TO have 600.
They say they intend TO do some of the
quickest and best bodybuilding ever seen
IN the State.
It vas recently announced that orders
had been given for the immediate con-
struction of depots at Charlotte. Hen
derson, and Raleigh by the Richmond
and Danvile road but at the two latter
places nothing has as yet been done. AT
Charlotte work has commenced. The
delay is annoying and breeds many
doubts in the public mind.
1t is said that in few days a petition
with quite a number of signatures will
be sent Governor Scales asking the com
mutation of the death sentence of Charles
+. Jones, the wife-murderer. to impri-
sonment for life. 1t is not probable
that it will have much weight, and it is
more than likely that Jones will swing.
His crime of strangling and drowning
his wife in Craven county will be re-
called.